Here's the list of what I read to catch myself up to speed with Zanzibar, a service designed by Google to centrally manage object ACLs.

UPDATE: nginx support for brotli is now in Debian!. I've removed my fork as I am no longer maintaining it, please move onto Debian's official package.

Debian does not yet ship ngx_brotli (libnginx-mod-brotli) so I've compiled Ondřej Surý's work so it can be used by everyone on Debian bullseye (Debian 11) and buster (Debian 10).

I'm putting my prediction hat on again, let's come back in a year and see how well I've done.

If, for whatever reason, you need a spreadsheet with all of the mailing addresses of every sheriff's office in North Carolina (that's 100 sheriff's offices for all 100 counties in North Carolina), I have put together a spreadsheet of mailing addresses for every North Carolina sheriff.

In the previous blog post I went over the design of storage systems and how they protect themselves from data loss in the face of disk failure or unclean shutdowns. If you’re putting together the hardware yourself modern Linux systems and modern hardware give you endless cost, performance and durability tradeoffs for whatever system you want. But 2020 also gives us the cloud, and storage systems in the cloud whose durability far exceeds whatever you could build yourself.

It is the year 2020 and we still don’t have great answers to data durability in the face of unclean shutdowns. Unclean shutdowns are things like power outages, system faults and unlucky kernel panics and preventing data loss when they happen is a hard problem. I’m going to talk through a few ways these can cause data loss in this blog post but you can probably come up with new ones on your own - exotic failures that no system will ever handle correctly. In the year 2020, the conventional wisdom is still true. Always take backups, and RAID is no substitute for backups.

The big news of this year's WWDC is the announcement that Apple's moving desktop Macs onto Apple Silicon, ARM CPUs manufactured by Apple and the first real push at ARM desktops in the industry.

bjoern is a WSGI-compatible web server for Python web applications. It supports both Python 2 and Python 3. Unfortunately the authors don't provide any binary packages but I've created compiled binary wheels for bjoern for Python 2 and 3 for Debian Jessie, Stretch and Buster and Ubuntu Xenial, Trusty and Bionic.

To install the package:

netatalk hasn't been packaged with Debian for a few years now. If you don't want to get your hands dirty with compiling the package you can download compiled (binary) deb packages of netatalk version 3 from my GitHub releases. Right now I have packages for netatalk version 3.1.12 and 3.1.11 for for Debian buster, stretch and jessie.

To install the packages: